China's Du Li and her fellow shooters will start off the Beijing Games in exciting fashion. The first event to award a medal both, at the Games and the test event, the women's 10m air rifle competition featured some welcome drama. The defending Olympic champion in the event, Du and 2004 bronze medalist Katerina Emmons of the Czech Republic were tied at 399 after the qualifying round. Emmons then unleaded a bevy of 10-plus shots in the finals the final round is measured by tenths of a point, as Du succumbed with a 9.8 and 9.7 in the midst of her ten shots. Emmons would go on to tie Du's finals world record of 504.9. "It is normal to get nine points," Du Li told the Xinhua News Agency. "Maybe there are psychological reasons and I will make a good sum-up after the competitions.
But that wouldn't be the last heard of Du at the event. In the women's 3-positions rifle, while facing world-renown shooter Sonja Pfeilschifter of Germany and the event's defending Olympic champ, Lyoubov Galkina of Russia, Du rose to the challenge and won gold despite not even being in the top 100 in the world in the event. "I have never given up the small bore rifle event," Du Li told the Xinhua News Agency. "I've already got a gold medal for the air rifle, so I am more eager for one of the small bore. I want to prove that I can perform excellently in this event as well."
Because the air rifle event is the first Olympic medal being handed out, there is extra expectation on Du to succeed and start the host nation off on the right foot in winning medals. "Maybe this will be the only chance for me to compete in the Olympic Games hosted by my own country, and I enjoy pressure," she said to the Xinhua News Agency.
Like her opponent Katerina Emmons, who married American gold-medal winner Matthew Emmons, Du Li also looks to her sport for her love interest. She is dating Zhang Fu who used to shoot for the Chinese national shooting squad.
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